1. www.grid.am ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 International Grid Infrastructures Current activities in Armenia H. Astsatryan Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia

2. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 Outline eInfrastructures and Grids Recent Projects in Armenia Armenian National Grid Infrastructure Local Services and International Involvement Future Activities

3. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 Outline eInfrastructures and Grids Recent Projects in Armenia Armenian National Grid Infrastructure Local Services and International Involvement Future Activities

4. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 Grid Definition: Word Meaning The term Grid computing or Grid suggest a computing paradigm similar to an electric power grid - a variety of resources contribute power into a shared "pool" for many consumers to access on an as-needed basis.

5. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 Grid Components MIDDLEWAREMIDDLEWARE Visualization User Access Suprecomputers,clusters Internet, networks Experiments, sensors, etc..

6. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 Brief History of Computing 1980: "DOS addresses only 1 Megabyte of RAM because we cannot imagine any applications needing more." -Microsoft on the development of DOS. 1981: "640k ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates

7. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 eInfrastructures Old WorldNew World Static Silo Physical Manual Application Dynamic Shared Virtual Automated Service Enabling large-scale innovative research to be conducted through collaboration of distributed teams of scientist across the European Research Area (ERA) paves the way towards a long-term vision of a sustainable, transparent, ubiquitous electronic infrastructure (eInfrastructure) open to a wide range of scientific user communities providing the development of Information Society in Europe.

8. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 e-Infrastructure: Reference Model

9. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 e-Infrastructure: Reference Model

10. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 e-Infrastructure:GÉANT Topology GÉANT is the pan- European data network dedicated to the research and education community. Together with Europe's national research networks, GÉANT connects 40 million users in over 8,000 institutions across 40 countries.

11. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 e-Infrastructure: Reference Model

12. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 e-Infrastructure: Reference Model 293 sites 56 countries 87,000 CPUs 5 PetaBytes >15,000 users >150 VOs >100,000 jobs/day Archeology Astronomy Astrophysics Civil Protection Comp. Chemistry Earth Sciences Finance Fusion Geophysics High Energy Physics Life Sciences Multimedia Material Sciences …

13. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 e-Infrastructure: Perspectives International Monitoring Systems

14. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 e-Infrastructures: Grid Projects Contractors GRNETGreece CERNSwitzerland SZTAKIHungary IPP-BASBulgaria ICIRomania TUBITAKTurkey ASA/INIMAAlbania UoBLBosnia-Herzegovina UKIMFYR of Macedonia UOBSerbia UoMMontenegro RENAMMoldova RBICroatia IIAP-NAS-RAArmenia GRENAGeorgia Third Party ssociate universities / research centres

15. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 Applications improved services for academia, industry and the public Support Actions key complementary functions Infrastructures geographical or thematic coverage International Grid Projects

16. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 e-Infrastructure: Reference Model Standards OGF

17. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 e-Infrastructures: Situation Need to prepare permanent, common Grid infrastructure Ensure the long-term sustainability of the European e-Infrastructure independent of short project funding cycles Coordinate the integration and interaction between National Grid Infrastructures (NGIs) Operate the production Grid infrastructure on a European level for a wide range of scientific disciplines

18. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 Outline eInfrastructures and Grids Recent Projects in Armenia Armenian National Grid Infrastructure Local Services and International Involvement Future Activities

19. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 Armenian National Grid Initiative Creation of Armenian Grid Joint Research Unit. Agreement signed in September 2007 Armenian National Grid Initiative Foundation, Kick-off meeting 31 October 2008. Juridical Status is in process P ♦ State Scientific Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science ♦ National Academy of Sciences ♦ State Engineering University of Armenia ♦ Yerevan State University ♦ Yerevan Physics Institute after A. Alikhanian ♦ Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems of the National Academy of Sciences ♦ Armenian e-Science Foundation The SEE-GRID-SCI initiative is co-funded by the European Commission under the FP7 Research Infrastructures contract no. 211338

20. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 Recent Projects Contractors GRNETGreece CERNSwitzerland SZTAKIHungary IPP-BASBulgaria ICIRomania TUBITAKTurkey ASA/INIMAAlbania UoBLBosnia-Herzegovina UKIMFYR of Macedonia UOBSerbia UoMMontenegro RENAMMoldova RBICroatia IIAP-NAS-RAArmenia GRENAGeorgia Third Party / JRU mechanism used associate universities / research centres The SEE-GRID-SCI initiative is co-funded by the European Commission under the FP7 Research Infrastructures contract no. 211338

21. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 State Target Project Deployment of Armenian National Grid Infrastructure Current Implementations: The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model is a next-generation mesoscale numerical weather prediction system designed to serve both operational forecasting and atmospheric research needs. The effort to develop WRF has been a collaborative partnership, principally among the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Forecast Systems Laboratory, the Air Force Weather Agency, the Naval Research Laboratory, the University of Oklahoma, and the Federal Aviation Administration.WRF The Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system has been designed to approach air quality as a whole by including state-of-the-science capabilities for modeling multiple air quality issues, including tropospheric ozone, fine particles, toxics, acid deposition, and visibility degradation. CMAQ is an active open-source development project of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that consists of a suite of programs for conducting air quality model simulations.CMAQU.S. Environmental Protection Agency Recent Projects

22. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 Project A-1451(2007-2009) Development of Scientific Computing Grid on the Base of Armcluster for South Caucasus Region Participants Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems NAS RA; Yerevan State University; State Engineering University of Armenia; Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics NAS RA; Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory NAS RA; Institute for Physical Research NAS RA Main Results General framework in the following R&D areas: quantum physics, astrophysics, molecular dynamics, 3D periodic artificial microwave structures, IT infrastructure library performance, quantum 3D reactive scattering in the 3-body system, identification and recognition of objects from video images by using digital signal and image processing methods, two-dimensional cellular automata, decision-making and nonlinear boundary parallel algorithms. Recent Projects

23. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 ISTC(International Science and Technology Center) Project A-1606(2008-2010) Development of Armenian-Georgian Grid Infrastructure and applications in the Fields of High Energy Physics, Astrophysics and Quantum Physics Participants Armenia: Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems NAS RA; Yerevan Physics Institute; Yerevan State University; Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory NAS RA Georgia: Georgian Research and Educational Networking Association; Georgian E.Kharadze National Astrophysical Observatory; Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Expected Main Results High Energy Physics: The calculation of NNLL QCD corrections for B > Xsγ decay; Monte Carlo production for the HERMES; Determination of the spin structure of nucleon-nucleon interaction; Spin-filtering experiment; Astrophysics: Development of Armenian-Georgian Virtual Observatory; Quantum Physics: High performance computer modeling of quantum optical devices and microstructured Nonlinear Materials Recent Projects

24. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 Outline eInfrastructures and Grids Recent Projects in Armenia Armenian National Grid Infrastructure Local Services and International Involvement Future Activities

25. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 National Grid Infrastructure

26. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 Computational Resources # Processors, Peak Performance (GFlops) and RAM (GB) IIAP NAS RAYSUSEUAYERPHIIRPHE NAS RA proc.R peak RAMproc.R peak RAMproc.R peak RAMproc.R peak RAMproc.R peak RAM Clusters1768399176 14401444848048 48048484848048

27. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 Infrastructure Core Services wms.grid.am lfc.grid.am bdii.grid.am voms.grid.am ce.iiap- cluster.grid.am se.iiap- cluster.grid.am ce.irphe- cluster.grid.am se.irphe- cluster.grid.am ce.ysu- cluster.grid.am se.ysu- cluster.grid.am ce.ysu- cluster2.grid.am se.ysu- cluster2.grid.am ce.seua- cluster.grid.am se.ysu2- cluster.grid.am

28. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 Infrastructure operations Operational tools: Static Database: HGSM (Hierachical Grid Site Management) Monitoring –SAM (+SQL port), GStat, GridIce, Googlemap/earth, MonaLisa, Real Time Monitor, Nagios, Pakiti Ticketing system (ops and user support): OneOrZero Accounting: RGMA and accounting portal Operations wiki Portal Fully interoperable with EGEE, overlapping SLA definition, monitoring and enforcement and corrective actions

29. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 User Communities Biology Mathematics Informatics and Computer Science Astrophysics Meteorology Environmental Protection Seismology High Energy Physics Quantum Physics Cross-border user communities and beneficiaries

30. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 Monitoring System Local Monitoring System Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters. The Relational Grid Monitoring Architecture (R-GMA) provides a service for information, monitoring and logging in a distributed computing environment. Global Monitoring Systems GStat is a centralized monitoring service, which monitors the worldwide Grid Information System. Its primary goal is to detect faults, verify the validity of and display useful data from the Information System. BBmSAM availability monitoring of the infrastructure is carried out by using SAM (Service Availability Monitoring) system developed in EGEE (Enabling Grids for E- science in Europe) project. SAM consists of server and client components that communicate over web services. The client initiates periodical test of infrastructure and published data to server which stores them in database.

31. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 Outline eInfrastructures and Grids Recent Projects Armenian National Grid Infrastructure Local Services and International Involvement Future Activities

32. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 Armenia: European Grid Initiative

33. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 Grid Core Services

34. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 Grid Core Services

35. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 Higher-Level Grid Services Basic Grid services: AA, job submission, info, … Higher-level grid services (brokering,…) Application toolkits Application Grid middleware Command line tools Portals and GEMLCA Graphical interface Grid middleware Command line tools Graphical interface

36. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 Higher-Level Grid Services

37. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 International Monitoring Systems SAM (Service Availability Monitoring): https://c01.grid.etfbl.net/bbmsam/ Job Accounting: http://gserv4.ipp.acad.bg:8080/AccountingPortal/ WatG Browser (What is at the Grid Browser) :http://watgbrowser.scl.rs:8080/ Nagios (Monitoring tool):https://portal.ipp.acad.bg:7443/seegridnagios/ GSTAT : http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gstat

38. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 Monitoring Systems: GSTAT

39. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 SEE Regional Infrastructure

40. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 Outline eInfrastructures and Grids Recent Projects Armenian National Grid Infrastructure Local Services and International Involvement Future Activities

41. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 International Projects: Submitted European Grid Initiative: Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe (EU FP7) Central to this proposal and key to coordinating an Integrated Sustainable Pan- European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe (InSPIRE) is a new legal organisation EGI.eu which will be the lead partner in the EGI-InSPIRE project. Currently, being established in Amsterdam, EGI.eu‘s focus is coordinating the continued operation and expansion of today‘s production grid infrastructure that supports over 13,000 researchers, many of them already heavy users of the infrastructure, across diverse disciplines such as Earth Science, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Fusion research, Computational Chemistry, Materials Science, Life Sciences and High Energy Physics. Coordinator: Participants: Nikhef, Netherlands 39 EU countries + CERN

42. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 International Projects: Submitted High-Performance Computing Infrastructure for South East Europe’s Research Communities (EU FP7) HP-SEE focuses on a number of strategic actions. First, it will link existing and upcoming HPC facilities in the region in a common infrastructure, and provide operational solutions for it. As a complementary action, the project will establish and maintain GEANT link for Caucasus. Second, it will open this HPC infrastructure to a wide range of new user communities, including those of less resourced countries, fostering collaboration and providing advanced capabilities to researchers, with an emphasis on strategic groups in computational physics, chemistry and life sciences. Finally, it will ensure establishment of national HPC initiatives, and act as a SEE bridge for PRACE. Coordinator: Participants: GRNET, Greece 14 countries

43. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 International Projects: In Prep. Remote Sensing Methods to Assess Heavy Metal Pollution in the Kura River Basin (ISTC) Brief Description: Environmental pollution is one of major concerns to the South Caucasus. The main objective of this Project is to deploy a regional research universal infrastructure for the monitoring of frontier farmlands and decision-making in this context. The infrastructure will provide mechanisms and tools for fast detection of sources and definition of levels of Heavy Metal pollution, which is crucial for the safety of the population. Partners: Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems of NAS RA, Center for Ecological-Noosphere Studies of NAS RA, Tbilisi State University, Georgian Research and Educational Networking Association, GIS and RS Consulting Center GeoGraphic Collaborators: Belgium (1), France (1), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Poland (1), Romania (1), USA (4), Support Letter (Turkey)

44. ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 More Information (www.grid.am)